4 responses to “Hollywood and Vine street sign in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park”

1. Jean Hunter says:

   June 25, 2016 at 1:00 pm

   Hi friends –

   In the stark daylight, the sign looks so lonely. But watch as night unfolds and it’s not alone anymore until daybreak. So beautiful and peaceful.

   All credit belongs to slworking2

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0TKSsLWTAg

   “This sign appears along Arroyo Hueso in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

   James A. Jasper, a San Diego County supervisor, was responsible for signing this and many other places about a mile apart along several of the dim and dusty trails threading the San Diego backcountry in 1895. The old emigrant trail from Teofulio (San Felipe) Pass southeast to Carizzo gap was marked in such a manner by Jasper’s iron signs. Directions painted on the signs gave distances to settlements and water holes. Long ago, a wag painted the words “Hollywood and Vine” on the metal plate of Jasper’s sign here, and the name (but not the original sign) stuck.”

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2. Charley Barranco says:

   November 7, 2023 at 8:07 pm

   Some idiots stole the sign a couple of years ago. The Park staff have not replaced it as of 11/06/23. When ever I went camping there (since the 80’s) I always brought a small bottle of white paint and a brush and repainted the letters. If you look close at the picture you will see blue electrical tape wrapped around the top of the pole . I would tape a small American flag to the edge of the pole when ever I camped there. Yesterday I was out there and the inconsiderate jerks that camped there over the weekend left blackened rocks all over the place where they had their illegal campfires . They left toilet paper and empty water bottles and beer cans all over the place and some A-HOLE illegally drove his 4×4 up the side of the hill where the sign used to be. There obviously is no law enforcement going on there. I found huge illegal fire rings on the ground just off the edge of Vallecito Creek on the way in. Palm Springs is a total mess. The park service used to periodically clean out the weeds and crap in the spring. Can’t even see the water now . Has not been cleaned in years. All the palms are dead and long gone. It’s a total crap hole. Very sad. The Park service is too lazy or understaffed to care about this area anymore . They WILL just close it to public use eventually. That is the easy fix for them. You can publish my name and email

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   • Martin Turnbull says:

     November 7, 2023 at 8:54 pm

     Hi Charley, and thanks so much for stopping by and filling in some of the details behind this unexpected picture. It’s such a shame that the site is so badly neglected. I’d like to think it’s because of underfunding/understaffing rather than laziness.

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     • Charley Barranco says:

       November 7, 2023 at 11:19 pm

       Hello Martin,
       I too hope that is the case also.
       In years past we would always have a visit by at least one Ranger on patrol during a trip to this area on a weekend. Usually to check that we had metal containers to build a fire in. Being retired, I have the opportunity to go there during the week now to avoid the “weekend warriors”. And to clean up their mess as I was doing yesterday, picking up their trash. From what I saw yesterday, there was evidence of many illegal ground fires and illegal off road activity. Traveling off the established washes is illegal. But it is being done.
       The neglect by the park service of the centuries old natural spring at the Palm Spring monument nearby was also very sad to see. This is such a beautiful area and it won’t surprise me that they close it off for remote camping like they did at Palm Springs ,years ago.

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